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I am not old enough to remeber the 5 Points Theatre actually operating as a theater though I have been vaguely aware of the building all my life. According to this site, the place opened in 1939 but by the 1960s had become too small to match the evolving theater market. You should definitely check out that link, as it has a killer picture of the place from back in the day, as well as part of the surrounding neighborhood.

Although the "theater-ness" of the place has been somewhat restored now, it currently operates as a bar called Red Hot Tomatoes. I don't know much about it except that googling the street address turns up that some sort of celebrity was in a fight there once.

I went to this theatre quite a bit in the late 60s. They had a Saturday morning kidee matinee program where adults could only come in if accompanied by a child. Nothing special about its interiors as I recall, just another run of the mill movie house.

I remember the Saturday morning matinee's for kids. We would get packs of movies for the summer and my Mom would drop us off at the theater while she shopped 5 Points. I really forget the movies that I saw. They must not have been memorable ones.

I do remember summer kids matinees, but we did ours at Richland Mall Theater. Same deal, my mother would drop us off while she shopped. That would never fly now (I'm pretty sure the places that still do it have explicit supervision on hand these days). I remember "The Apple Dumpling Gang", "Blue Water White Death" (a Great White Shark documentary that was really too intense for a kids matineee!), and an animated version of the Chinese "Monkey King" epic with Frankie Avalon as the voice of the monkey.

Looking at this pic. of the old 5 point Theater..I noticed that "King's Row" is still next to it. They have been there at least since 1970-71 and they are still there. I'm really surprized. So they have been there around 39 years in the same spot. I dont think they were there in 1969, but not sure. Does anyone remember what year they opened?

I know that the theatre was open at least until the late 1960's. I went to a lot of films there while in high school and using fake id's to see "art" films there. I would park my bike between the theatre and Eckerd's in the alley. It was stolen in 1969.